[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] fakeroot: fix spurious message "undefined symbol"

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 5 20:55:38 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed,  5 Oct 2016 17:01:23 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> Since the glibc 2.24-3, and this commit:
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=80f87443eed17838fe453f1f5406ccf5d3698c25
> fakeroot will print spurious message about symbols not being found.
> 
> [...]
> dlsym(acl_get_fd): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_get_fd
> dlsym(acl_get_file): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_get_file
> dlsym(acl_set_fd): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_set_fd
> dlsym(acl_set_file): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_set_file
> dlsym(acl_get_fd): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_get_fd
> dlsym(acl_get_file): /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so: undefined symbol: acl_get_file
> [...]
> 
> It doesn't seem to impair the behavior of fakeroot, it's simply annoying
> for the user.
> 
> Debian (which is the creator of fakeroot) has a patch which is a
> workaround: simply don't display the message.
> 
> Note if you wish to bump fakeroot:
> A new version is available but the release tarball doesn't include the
> 'configure' and 'Makefile' pre-generated.
> This means that if we were to bump, the package would need to run its
> own 'bootstrap' script which will add dependencies to
> host-{automake,autoconf,...} which would be annoying (since almost every
> build runs fakeroot).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>     - Rename patch to include ordering
>     - Add SoB on the patch
> ---
>  package/fakeroot/0001-hide-dlsym-error.patch | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/fakeroot/0001-hide-dlsym-error.patch

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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